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Adding text over a background image

I'm new the building of web sites. I've encountered a problem while building my bluevoda website. I've added a background image to my home page and added some text. In bv it looks fine. The problem is that when I preview my page the text shows up with a white background. I want to see the text shown directly on my background image. can anyone advise me on how to fix this

Re: Adding text over a background image

Insert the text box, double click it like you are going to add text. Look at the font buttons (near the top of the page), click the one just to the right of the text color (it is the back ground color) and click reset back ground.

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Re: Adding text over a background image

Hi, I'm creating a new site and would like to know if there is a way to add a shadow to fonts over an image? The font disappears in some sections and I think a shadow would fix this issue... unless anybody has a different idea. Thanks.

Re: Adding text over a background image

Originally Posted by D'son

Insert the text box, double click it like you are going to add text. Look at the font buttons (near the top of the page), click the one just to the right of the text color (it is the back ground color) and click reset back ground.

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Thanks for your quick reply! I'm due to make a presentation of this site tomorrow...

For me, clicking the box only once does not activate the background color choice. I'm really puzzled by this problem since I've been putting text over my photos for a long time and it always worked.
I did find the choice of making the text a GIF ( on the drop down menu for the text box). I did that and the background disappeared but now the text is ragged. Is there a better way?

Re: Adding text over a background image

Three things to try...

For type, not for your gif: Delete the trouble maker and try again fresh.

Or: Highlight the text (by dragging the cursor across it after clicking) and set the background to a color (orange, say) to see if that works on the photo, then do it again with reset option. If that doesn't work, something's messed up.

To fix your gif: When converting any text to an image (gif), put it on a black background before you convert. That way the little jaggies on the converted type will be black and grey pixels instead of white. Looks better against the photo.

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Thanks for all the suggestions. None of them worked... and then bingo! when I was setting up to make a GIF I checked once more and the background was gone. wish I knew what I did so someone else could learn from this, but I really don't know.

the black background for a GIF- (chosen from Properties on the text box drop menu, then check Convert to image, Advanced/ transparency color) - is a neat trick to know. I used it over the photo, but now I don't have to, which is great because the text is much cleaner.